1-3-11

Dear Family & Friends

I hope that you all had a Happy New Year. We all did here. For the New Years our Temecula-Zone of missionaries got together & played some games - mostly basketball - -(Sister Robinette has all the pictures of our Christmas & New Years - so sometime I will have to get them from her.)
So this week was really good. Elder Yarn & I are praying so hard for miracles to rain down & trying to work just as hard for them. On Saturday night we both decided to get the zone together to have a special fast for a "January of Miracles". We prayed for each of our investigators to progress towards a baptism in January. We are so blessed her in Temecula - we have so many people to teach (we say Temecula is like the "sleeping Giant" just waiting to explode with baptisms). The feeling after the fast was amazing - a feeling that comfirmed that our prayer & sacrifice would be excepted. Let me tell you, God answers prayers! The Miracles started to happen that morning. One of our investigators: KJ Barrett had never come to church and that morning she called us & said she was lost & trying to get to our church. We met her at the Walmart parking lot & supprise - it wasn't only her in the car, but her mother from Ohio that came in for the holidays. She said that she wanted to bring her to church with her. After the meeting they both said what a great experience it was to come to church.
We also had a way awesome experience at one of our appointments teaching Tim & Rachel Richards. We went over & was just talking about how blessed we are to each have a purpose in life and to know that we have a Heavenly Father who loves each of us very much, & then Rachel started to bear her testimony to us about how she knew what we taught was true. She said that she believed that God could call Joseph Smith & that He could call a prophet here in these days. She knew that there was life after death & that there would be a chance for those who haven't heard the gospel to hear it after death. She loves the principles that we teach & would get baptized in a second - she is just waiting for her husband to recieve answers. He said that the only thing for him is the "Joseph Smith thing". We testified boldly and committed him to read the Book of Mormon & promised that he would get an answer - & I know he will do it & get an answer.
got to go, but I love you sooo much! Stay safe!-- Love, ELDER PATRICK McBRIDE